Beijing may not get desired result in 2020: Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/11/08
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — More China-sponsored disinformation spread in favor of Kuomintang (KMT)

candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) has been observed ahead of Taiwan's 2020 election, but Beijing may not get the result it wants in January, according to a Southeast Asia expert at a U.S. think tank on Thursday (Nov. 7).

Joshua Kurlantzick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), has studied the upcoming election and listed several of the strategies China employs to interfere with Taiwan's presidential election.

With the election just 64 days away, Kurlantzick observed that China's aggressive disinformation campaign appears to be in full swing. However, unlike in 2018, Taiwan's media regulators and people have become more aware of China's effort to shape voters' opinions.    [FULL  STORY]